The Dickinson press., 1887-08-20
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.
DAKOTA NEWS,

year.
There are 256 students in attend
ancc ut the agricultural college at
Bruokings.
The division campaign will he
opened 10y General Campbell ut Mill
bank. Sept. 8.
Neche, Pembina county, is to have
an academy for the education of
young ladies.
The Mitchell base ball club de-
clinrs Il challenge hy the W%oonsockct
nine to play ball for 5000.
y city directory man is at work on
Il contract ut Aberdeen to show that
the town has 5000 population.
\. foot race for 5000 will soon occur
ut W ;thpeton between IL Wahpcton
runner anu Il man from Minnesota.
The house of a. q. Mackcy. near
Gary, WAS struck 10y lightning and
the whole family badly shocked.
Rev. L. u. Nash. of Fargo. has
been appointed chaplain of the First
Dakota regiment.
Watertown has gone crazy over it's
ball team, which has an unbrokcn
record of victories.
Thomas Dyer, prominent citizen Of
laMonre, has disappeared. leaving.
it is alleged, many creditors.
\. Flanlrcau bird dog discovers the
whereabouts of his master by SMELL
ing the door l~atcllrs about town.
\. barn belonging To q. W. Baker,
near Olivct, was struck by lightning
and burned to the ground.
The Minneapolis and Pacific rail-
road company will at once build an
elevator ut Oakes. equal to amy now
There.
Base ball clubs i'm the central por-
ton of the territory put UP purses of
from $lGU to 5000 OF the game to
make it interesting.
Two or three companies of the Dak-
otl militia will engage in the sham
battle ut the Minneapolis exposition
next month.
Lee Wall. IL Chinese lallndryman,
after Il residence of eighteen years in
the United States. has taken out nat
mraliZation papers ut Faulkton.
j. +. wallace and Malcolm Mcleod
escaped from the Bismarck pcniten-
tiary, Wednesday. ~ reward of 500
is offered for their capture.
John Slntie didn't know the gun
WAS loaded and so shot john Mellon.
aid in the abdomen ut Whcatland.
Mcdonald will recover.
Levi Reyes. living near st. An
drcws. Walsh county, was killed the
other day in an attempt to stop Il rum
away team which WAS hitched to Il
binder.
1t is said that a Washington lawyer
is ileecing Dakota banks by getting
them to pay him $500 for being made
United States repositories. There
was nc necessity of the fee.
An Illinois balloonist will make
three usccnsions from Mitchell on the
occasion of the territorial fair, and
All effort is being made to secure the
presence of Senator Sherman.
The applications for the 81, 900 bo-
nus offered by the citizens of Alex
of the most practical creamery men
of the country.
The whistling of Il steam thresher
side-trrcked IL freight train the other
day near Canton, the engineer and
conductor m%istaking it for an APP
proarhing train.
The Western States Passenger AS
ISOLATION has granted one and one
third rates for round trip to Huron
during the annual convention of the
| w. c. II. L.. September 9 to ID.
james OIIaire. of Il Duluth, Water
town 4 Pacific surveying party, was
drowned ut Huron while swimming
the river. His parents are residents
OF Cato. Wis. his own home being in
Watertown. Oak.
a I;rookings MAJ bought a tree
claim for $500 this spring, three
miles from town, on which he has
already cut 300 tons of hay, for
which he has been offered 81 per ton.
The treasurer of Minnesota county
decides that real property cal be sold
for delinquent personal taxes. The
decision has created Il decided com.
motion in that county.
Ten horse thieves, who for the last
two years have piled their trade be-
tween Pierre and the Black Hills,
have been caught. The leader, Il
half breed named Van Morse, made
q full confession, duplicating some
fifteen different men.
Thomas w. Bishop, publisher of
| the Tribune. ut Volya. has associated
| with himself Mr.. Cobb, who has been
connected with the Inter Ocean for
many years, for the purpose of cstab-
fishing a newspaper ut Cakes.
Trail county agricultural society
will furnish II minister and appropri.
ate music and Il present of $50 to any
couple who will consent to be mar
ried publicly Oh the fair grounds of
the society ut the fair next month.
The regular contractor did not ar
l v OH time Ut Fort Bennett, so the
issue clerk came to Pierre and pur.
chased 1900 pounds of granulated
sugar and 500 pounds of coffee for the
Indians. just to tide them over a day.
Thursday night, at Watertown,
while L. III. Bishop was returning
from the theater he was twice fired
at by some concealed party. 1t is
supposed that he was mistaken by
the would-be assassin for another
party. There is no clue.
The most picturesque lightning lie
since the story of the melting of a
mans bones in Hughes county was
| circulated comes from Rolette coun.
ty, where lightning is said to have
struck Il large onion bed and cooked
the onions.